Treasure Island
By: illustrated by Edward A. Wilson.
Contributors: Wilson, Edward A.
Series: The Heritage illustrated bookshelf
Publisher: The Heritage Press
Published: 1941
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 206
Description: Features a poem for the "hesitating purchaser".

TO THE HESITATING PURCHASER

If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
    Storm and adventure, heat and cold,
If schooners, islands, and maroons 
    And Buccaneers and buried Gold,
And all the old romance, retold
    Exactly in the ancient way,
Can please, as me they pleased of old,
    The wiser youngsters of today:

--So be it, and fall on! If not,
    If studious youth no longer crave
His ancient appetites forgot,
    Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,
Or Cooper of the wood and wave:
    So be it also! And may I
And all my pirates share the grave
    Where these and their creations lie!
Notes: Limited edition.